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Topic: NASA fuel cells engineer Frank Norton
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dtemple
Member Posts: 729
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 05-09-2018 12:07 PM
   
Does anyone know about the work of the late Frank Norton, a NASA engineer who worked at Kennedy Space Center from December 1964 to March 1995? All I know is that his work was related to manned space projects from Gemini to the space shuttle. His work on the latter was directly involved with fuel cells. He was on the team that traveled to Edwards to prepare the orbiter for return to KSC. |
Buel
Member Posts: 649
From: UK
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 05-12-2018 02:33 AM
I assume you've seen this photo of Mr. Norton on page 18 of the Kennedy Space Center Yearbook. |
dtemple
Member Posts: 729
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 05-18-2018 05:19 PM
Thanks. No, I had not seen that photo. I inquired about Mr. Norton's work to KSC's PR department but was told no information about employees could be shared. |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-18-2018 07:45 PM
Possibly some of his work  |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3120
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 05-19-2018 08:49 AM
quote:
Originally posted by dtemple:
I inquired about Mr. Norton's work to KSC's PR department but was told no information about employees could be shared.
But he's not a KSC employee. He's deceased. I don't know about American data protection law, but under British law, a deceased person does not have data protection rights, being deceased. Of course, there are still restrictions if data would impact on the rights of living persons, but I can't help wondering whether this is yet another example of pen-pushers hiding behind data protection legislation to avoid having to do something. |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1463
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 05-20-2018 09:37 AM
Public affairs personnel do not have access to former or current worker data. There is no central depository for such data. HR doesn't keep data on former workers. And if public affairs wants data on a current worker, then they have ask that person for the data. An exception is when that person is getting an award or a position of significance, then some background data is collected for a bio. If a person is just going to be a drone and just do their job but doesn't excel at it and doesn't' get any awards or promotions, public affairs is not going to have any data on them. Nor would they know which missions or projects they worked on. Also, there is no formal central documentation of which workers supported which missions. It could be done indirectly by looking mission documentation, but nobody have time or a need for that. |
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